Stefan Schwarzkopf highlights the launch of a fascinating archive of all the market and consumer research reports compiled by the famous (and notorious) motivation researcher Ernest Dichter between 1935 and the 1980s Read More
David Stark introduces his ‘silent lectures’, which are available to download. There are four silent lectures – Performance, Models, Demonstrations, and (with Gernot Grabher) Frequently Asked Questions Read More
Are consumer markets devised or ‘agenced’? Liz McFall wonders in this first follow up to the ESF Agencing Markets workshop and extract from her forthcoming book Devising Consumption. Read More
Gay Hawkins on Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic, a new collection co-edited with Jennifer Gabrys and Mike Michael Read More
A gallery of photographs taken by Andrew Hill in early November 2011 outside St Paul’s and at Finsbury Circus Read More
A report on preliminary research conducted by Jose Ossandon into how credit limits move between people and homes. Translated by Taylor Nelms Read More